Summer Of Sam did it. So did Saturday Night Fever and Mean Streets. And ditto Dito Montiel’s partially biographical coming-of-age story set in ’80s Queens. His debut feature captures an era and mood with such intoxicating swagger that you can almost smell the soiled clothes his teen protagonists posture in, feel the heat of a sweaty metropolis and taste the dead-end frustration on every dilapidated corner.
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